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Brit Marling
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles…
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Brit Heyworth Marling (born August 7, 1982) is an American writer, producer, director, and actress. After majoring in economics at Georgetown University, Brit moved to Los Angeles with friends Mike Cahil and Zal Batmanglij to pursue screenplay writing and acting. Marling was born in Chicago, Illinois. She was named "Brit" after her Norwegian maternal great-grandmother. She graduated from Georgetown University in 2005 with degrees in economics and studio art, and was her class Valedictorian. Following graduation from Georgetown, Marling spent a summer interning for the investing banking firm Goldman Sachs. She later turned down a job offer from the firm, opting instead to move to Cuba with friend and director Mike Cahill to film the documentary Boxers and Ballerinas. It was for this documentary that Marling first gained recognition in 2004; having co-written the film with Mike Cahill and Nicholas Shumaker and co-directed with Mike Cahill. Marling also co-wrote, co-produced, and acted in the 2011 films Sound of My Voice and Another Earth. Both of these films were featured at the 2011 Sundance Film Festival, with Another Earth winning the Alfred P. Sloan Prize for outstanding film with science, technology or math as a major theme. In 2012, she played Richard Gere's daughter in Arbitrage. In 2013, she collaborated with Sundance once again on her lead role in The East alongside Elliot Page and Alexander Skarsgård.
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2026
Star Trek: Starfleet Academy
TV show USS Athena Computer (voice)
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2023
A Murder at the End of the World
TV show Lee Andersen
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2022
On the Line: The Richard Williams Story
Movie Producer
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2019
This Changes Everything
Movie Self
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2016
The OA
TV show Prairie Johnson
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2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV show Self
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2014
Babylon
TV show Liz Garvey
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2014
Posthumous
Movie McKenzie Grain
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2014
The Keeping Room
Movie Augusta
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2014
I Origins
Movie Karen
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2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
TV show Self
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2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
TV show Self
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2014
The Better Angels
Movie Nancy Lincoln
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2013
The East
Movie Sarah
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2012
The Company You Keep
Movie Rebecca Osborne
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2012
Arbitrage
Movie Brooke Miller
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2011
Another Earth
Movie Rhoda Williams
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2011
Sound of My Voice
Movie Maggie
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2009
Community
TV show Page
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2009
Political Disasters
Movie Brit
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2007
Everyone Stares: The Police Inside Out
Movie Co-Producer
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2007
The Recordist
Movie Charlie Hall
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2006
Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
Movie Director of Photography
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2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
TV show Self
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2004
Boxers and Ballerinas
Movie Director
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2003
Real Time with Bill Maher
TV show Self
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Uncanny Valley
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